On 1/6/06 16:33, "Sandy P. Klein" <spklein52@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary definition of:
Nabokovian
Pronunciation: (nab"u-kō'vē-un), [key] <http://www.infoplease.com/pronkey.html>
˜adj.
of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary style of Vladimir Nabokov: a sly, Nabokovian sense of the absurd.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary
Nabokov
Pronunciation: (nu-bô'kuf, nab'u-kôf", -kof"; Russ. nu-bô'kuf), [key] <http://www.infoplease.com/pronkey.html>
˜n.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Pronunciation: (vlad'u-mēr" vlad"u-mēr'u-vich; Russ. vlu-dyē'myir vlu-dyē'myi-ru-vyich), [key] <http://www.infoplease.com/pronkey.html> 1899ˆ1977, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and poet, born in Russia.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary
Sandy/DN: I’ve often wondered whether VN always pronounced ‘Nabokov’ with the Russian vowels & stresses (as shown above) — and if so, did he ever correct or comment on the quite common ‘English’ variation. Some ‘proper’ names travel as badly as some wines. My pet, irrational peeves are D-AH-ntay, and Pla-SEED-o Domingo.
Stan Kelly-Bootle